| 单词 |
law-day |
| 释义 |
ˈlaw-day Obs. exc. Hist.
[f. law n.1]
1. The day for the meeting of a court of law, esp. of the sheriff's court, once in six months, or of the court leet, once a year; hence used for the session of such a court, and the court itself.
1235–52Rent. Glaston. (Som. Rec. Soc.) 189 Salvis duobus laghedaghes. 1292Year-bk. 20 & 21 Edw. I (Rolls) 339 A deus lauedaues [printed lauedanes] par an. 1331Lit. Cantuar. 31 Oct. (Rolls) I. 403 Ad exigendum et manutenendum jura..ac etiam Curiam nostram de Godmersham, quæ dicitur Laghe daye, die Veneris proxime sequente. 1444Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 399 The law dayis eftir Michelmess. 1467in Eng. Gilds (1870) 370 That the articles of the yelde aforeseid be redde and declared at the lawday. 1516in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 16 Two tymys yn y⊇ yere to kepe a lawedaye there. 1535Act 27 Hen. VIII, c. 26 §23 [Lordes marchers] shall have..their Lordshippes Courtis Baron Court letes and Lawedayes. 1589R. Harvey Pl. Perc. (1860) 5, I will present you at the law day for a ryot. 1604Shakes. Oth. iii. iii. 140 Who ha's that breast so pure, Wherein vncleanly Apprehensions Keepe Leetes and Law⁓dayes? 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 201 Thirdly, that Thursday should be Court or law-day for deciding controversies. 1641Termes de la Ley 194 Law-day signifies a Leet or Sheriffes tourne. 1710Hearne Collect. 23 Apr. (O.H.S.) II. 379 A Lawday of the Dean and Canons of Hereford. 1890Gross Gild. Merch. II. 105 The ‘curia legalis’ (Law-day) was held yearly the Monday next after the feast of St. Hilary.
2. A day appointed for the discharge of a bond, after which the debtor could not at common law be relieved from the forfeiture.
1492Ryman Poems xcii. 6 in Archiv. Stud. neu. Spr. LXXXIX. 266, I make an ende within shorte space. I sette no lawe day in the case. |
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